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Monday, 8 June 2015

Police uncover ritual killers’ hideout in Ondo

Policemen
attached to the Igbotako Division of the Ondo State Police Command have
uncovered a hideout where suspected ritual killers keep their victims.

The hideout is located in Ago Oyinbo Community in the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state.

According
to residents, ritual killers had been using the hideout for the past
three years. Police investigations revealed that the suspects, after
kidnapping their victims, would bring them to the location and slaughter
them.

Sequel to the discovery of the illegal activities of the
suspects, the youths of the community were said to have reported to the
police who reportedly stormed the village and arrested about five people
in connection with the crime. The youths also reportedly demolished the
building.

When Puch Metro visit the hideout at the
village which is a few kilometres from Benni-Ore-Ijebu Ode Expressway,
the mud building allegedly used for the act was found demolished while
some of the fetish items found there had been burnt.

Also
sighted at the hideout were: cow horns, clothes reportedly belonging to
some of the victims, palm fronds, bottles of gin, calabashes, ‘Ghana
must go’ bags among others .

Confirming the development, the
Baale of the Ago Oyinbo, Chief Moyebi Okeowo, explained that the ritual
killers started using the building in 2012 when the suspects came to him
to beg for a space in the village which they wanted to use for a
location to shoot a movie.

He said he asked somebody to take them to the owner of the land, unknown to him that the suspects had an ulterior motive.

He
said, “They came to me to beg for a piece of land to shoot their film. I
told them I was not the owner of the land and I took them to the
brother of the landlord of the land who then took them to the wife of
the landlord in Akure. “I
learnt they were authorised by the wife of the landlord to use the land
and since then they have been using the land. I told their leader to go
and report their activities to the police and he later informed me that
he had done so.”

The
old man stated further that he was unaware of the activities of the
suspects until last Monday when he got the information that the suspects
were using human beings for sacrifice on the land.